Hysterical women’s groups have made outrageous, unsubstantiated claims that the closure of Tasmania’s remaining abortion clinic will put lives at risk, and may result in some desperate women seeking “backyard abortion operators”. The Hobart abortion clinic in...

Family Planning NSW has called for the government to collect national data on abortion numbers in Australia. In an investigative report by the ABC into falling abortion numbers in Australia, Family Planning NSW chief executive officer Professor Ann Brassil was quoted....

Do you know what an abortion is? Before you scoff, mutter “of course I do!” and move on to the next thing in your news feed, I want to ask you again, but differently. Do you know precisely what happens during an abortion? It’s worth exploring,...

From July 1 this year, Northern Territory women will be given access to abortion drug RU486. The Termination of Pregnancy Law Reform Bill was passed in parliament late on Tuesday night (20 votes to four) and means, from July 1, surgical abortions and medical abortions...

I despise the weasel words, the weak and worthless ways the clever and crafty make something dangerous and destructive sound so noble and good. Terms like “safe abortion”, “fertility control clinics”, “unintended pregnancies” “removing the contents of the uterus”,...